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Limerick: There was an Old Man of Vesuvius,

by Edward Lear

Edward Lear

There was an Old Man of Vesuvius,
Who studied the works of Vitruvius;
When the flames burnt his book,
To drinking he took,
That morbid Old Man of Vesuvius.




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